Smart City & Public Health

What’s the lifetime cost of your air quality monitors?

Many commercial air quality monitors heat the air prior to sampling, but South Coast Science has developed a more elegant solution to the problem that saves on maintenance costs, whilst also improving data accuracy.

A Smart Approach to Air Quality: Monitoring and visualising

It can be difficult for non-scientists to engage with, much less understand the implications of, air quality data. Scientists and artists alike are developing creative ways  of raising awareness of the impact of poor air quality on health. 

Air Quality Monitor in Brighton picked up PM1 plume from French Wildfires

Attribution is often a concern for commercial projects and with a precision air quality monitor, some environmental science and some detective work, it’s usually possible to figure out what happened where, with a degree of certainty.

Machine Learning (ML) boosts performance of low-cost air quality sensors

Recent research using low-cost Praxis/Urban air quality instruments uses ML data correction methods to improve field performance.  The research is linked with Oxford’s OxAria project and […]

Praxis/Urban Air Quality Monitors deployed in Oxford

OxAria is a collaboration between academic, public and commercial partners that aims to understand the air and noise quality impacts of COVID-19 across Oxford city. It is led by the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford and funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council.

Falkirk Council Collaboration: SO2 Air Quality Monitoring at Grangemouth Oil Refinery

John Millar, Air Quality Specialist at Falkirk Council, spoke to SCS about using a Praxis unit and the value of reliable data from an ambient monitor.